---
title: 'Carmen (1918)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ernst Lubitsch'
released: '1918-12-17'
runtime_minutes: 80
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/carmen-1918'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0008950/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Carmen (1918)

1918 · 80 min · Drama · Germany


## Synopsis

Carmen is a 1918 German silent drama film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Pola Negri, Harry Liedtke, and Leopold von Ledebur. It was based on the novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée. Like Bizet's opera Carmen, this film only adapts the third part of Mérimée's novella and transforms the character of Don José at the beginning of the story from bandit on the run to honest man in love with his childhood sweetheart. The film was released with English intertitles in the United States in 1921 under the alternative title Gypsy Blood.

## Credits

- **Screenplay:** [Grete Diercks](https://cinepixo.com/people/grete-diercks), [Norbert Falk](https://cinepixo.com/people/norbert-falk), [Hanns Kräly](https://cinepixo.com/people/hanns-kraly)
- **Director:** [Ernst Lubitsch](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernst-lubitsch)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Artur Vieregg](https://cinepixo.com/people/artur-vieregg)
- **Producer:** [Paul Davidson](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-davidson)
- **Director of Photography:** [Alfred Hansen](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-hansen-2)

## Cast

- [Paul Biensfeldt](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-biensfeldt)
- [Harry Liedtke](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-liedtke)
- [Wilhelm Diegelmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/wilhelm-diegelmann)
- [Margarete Kupfer](https://cinepixo.com/people/margarete-kupfer)
- [Max Kronert](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-kronert)
- [Victor Janson](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-janson)
- [Magnus Stifter](https://cinepixo.com/people/magnus-stifter)
- [Grete Diercks](https://cinepixo.com/people/grete-diercks)
- [Heinrich Peer](https://cinepixo.com/people/heinrich-peer)
- [Leopold von Ledebur](https://cinepixo.com/people/leopold-von-ledebur)
- [Pola Negri](https://cinepixo.com/people/pola-negri)
- [Sophie Pagay](https://cinepixo.com/people/sophie-pagay)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/carmen-1918
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